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Glow-in-the-Dark Creature to Provide View Inside Human Body
"They have a light-emitting protein, a bioluminescent protein, amino luciferase."- Jianghong Rao, Stanford University assistant professor in radiology
"We could see the bio-luminescence imaging from either side."- Jianghong Rao, Stanford University assistant professor in radiology
"We could see the bio-luminescence imaging from either side."
Stanford, California, USA - Tiny semiconductor crystals called quantum dots may soon light their own paths through the human body.
Because quantum dots light up, or fluoresce, when struck by narrow bands of light energy, they are especially useful for medical imaging.
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